“In my youth, I used drugs and food addictions to deal with the tough emotions of growing up in a family where physical and emotional abuse were a norm and, well — that is the easier stuff to talk about. I also experienced some domestic violence in my adult life, and it feels like my yoga practice literally carried me at a time when I needed great courage to make changes in our lives. That has inspired me to do the outreach work that I do.”

– Nancy Candea, founder of the Yoga Impact teacher mentoring program and training director of the Kula for Karma yoga service organization